An Imaginary Home.
When furnishing a home take into consideration sanitary conditions, use, convenience, economy and artistic effects.
1. Ask pupils to make clippings of house plans from papers, magazines, etc. Study and compare them.
2. Decide upon a plan for a simple house, and have some member of the class draw the floor plans upon the blackboard where it can remain for a time.
3. Several points must be considered in conjunction, that there may may be harmony throughout the house as the rooms open into each other.
a. The color scheme and design for each room. Some samples of cloth or paper to show the exact colors and combinations of colors decided upon.
b. Decoration of the walls.
c. The floor finish or covering.
d. Color of shades and curtains that the outside may present a favorable appearance.
4. Divide the class into sections and assign a room to each section to suggest detail in style of furnishing and decorating.
| a. Living Room. |
| b. Dining Room. |
| c. Kitchen. |
| d. Pantry. |
| e. Hall. |
| f. Sleeping Rooms. |
| g. Bath. |
| h. Laundry. |
5. Avoid over-crowding the rooms with furniture and cluttering with too many pictures and useless and inartistic bric-a-brac, and dust-collectors.
6. The Care of the Home: This topic will enable the teacher to give many helpful suggestions. Assign sub-divisions of the subject to different members of the class:
| a. Sweeping. |
| b. Dusting. |
| c. Care of bare floors. |
| d. Window washing. |
| e. Dish washing. |
| f. Care of cupboards. |
| g. Care of book-shelves, daily papers, magazines, etc. |
| h. Care of sleeping rooms, beds, etc. |
| i. Care of bath rooms. |